King Richard the Third
864
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
--- King Richard III I, i, 1
discontent: malcontent. son: with a pun on sun
Grim-visaged War hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
--- King Richard III I, i, 9
Grim-visaged: with a stern face. wrinkled front: frowning brow
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
--- King Richard III I, i,12
capers: jumps or runs about as though enjoying oneself. lascivious: feeling or causing sexual desire
(Why, I, in) this weak piping time of peace,
--- King Richard III I, i,24
piping times: peaceful times in which the music of the pastoral pipe is heard, instead of that of the martial fife
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
--- King Richard III I, ii, 71
touch: feeling
Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger,
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart:
Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
--- King Richard III I, ii, 203
看這戒指正好套上妳手指，
好比妳胸脯緊緊包住我的心：
把戒指和我的心都收下吧，這兩樣都屬於妳。encompasseth: encircles
870
Was ever woman in this humor wooed?
Was ever woman in this humor won?
--- King Richard III I, ii, 227
humor: temporary state of mind
A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
Framed in the prodigality of nature--
--- King Richard III I, ii, 242
Framed … nature: graced with lots of natural gifts
(I cannot tell,) the world is grown so bad
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
--- King Richard III I, iii, 69
世界變壞了
鷦鷯橫行 老鷹卻沒立足之地。
Since every Jack became a gentleman,
Theres many a gentle person made a Jack.
--- King Richard III I, iii, 71
Jack: low-bred or ill-mannered fellow, knave
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
--- King Richard III I, iii, 335
ends: fragments, tags, quotations
Talkers are no good doers. Be assur’d;
We go to use our hands, and not our tongues.
--- King Richard III I, iii, 350
O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though ‘twere to buy a world of happy days--
--- King Richard III I, iv, 2
Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks;
A thousand men that fishes gnaw upon;
--- King Richard III I, iv, 21
(Unto) the kingdom of perpetual night.
--- King Richard III I, iv, 47
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning and the noontide night:
--- King Richard III I, iv, 76
A parlous boy!
--- King Richard III II, iv, 35
parlous: clever, precocious
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
--- King Richard III III, i, 79
俗話說 智慧開得早，壽命活不長。
Off with his head!
--- King Richard III III, iv, 75
880
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Ready with every nod to tumble down
Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
--- King Richard III III, iv, 99
bowels: the deepest inner part of something
I am not in the giving vein today.
--- King Richard III IV, ii, 115
我今天沒有心情來施予。 vein: disposition, humour
The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham’s bosom,
--- King Richard III IV, iii, 38
Abraham’s bosom: i.e. heaven (see Luke 16:22ff.). Edward’s sons have been carried off by the angels.
Thou cam’st on earth to make the earth my hell.
你來到人世 卻把人世變成我的地獄。
A grievous burden was thy birth to me,
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;
--- King Richard III IV, iv, 167
Tetchy: fretful
Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.
--- King Richard III IV, iv, 195
serves: attends
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
--- King Richard III IV, iv, 358
speeds: succeeds
Harp not on that string, (madam, that is past.)
--- King Richard III IV, iv, 364
Harp: hit upon. Don’t harp on that point.
Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!
--- King Richard III IV, iv, 431
Relenting: easily moved to pity.
Is the chair empty? is the sword unswayed?
Is the King dead? the empire unpossessed?
--- King Richard III IV, iv, 469
sword: symbol of regal power or authority. unswayed: not wielded, uncontrolled. empire: kingdom
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Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we marched on without impediment;
--- King Richard III V, ii, 3
True hope is swift and flies with swallow’s wings,
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
--- King Richard III V, ii, 23
希望快成真 像燕子展翅飛翔，
國王可以成眾神，平民可以為國王。
(Besides,) the King’s name is a tower of strength,
--- King Richard III V, iii, 12
890
Give me another horse! bind up my wounds!
--- King Richard III V, iii, 177
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O coward conscience, how doth thou afflict me!
--- King Richard III V, iii, 179
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
--- King Richard III V, iii, 193
By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have strook more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
--- King Richard III V, iii, 216
strook: struck. substance: creature
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
--- King Richard III V, iii, 309
A horse, a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
--- King Richard III V, iv, 7
894
(Slave,) I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
I think there be six Richmonds in the field;
--- King Richard III V, iv, 9
cast: throw of the dice. die: singular of dice. six Richmonds: i.e. Richmond and five men dressed like him (a common stratagem in battle).
